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Written Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
- Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a…
- What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.
- Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is…
- Keeping accounts, sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You…
- Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?
- I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
- What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
- He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are…
- You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally…
- Dr Blair . . . asked . . . whether he thought any man of a modern age could have written such poems [Ossian] .…
More Written Quotes
- The Imitation of Christ is a cherished treasure of the Christian world. This great book was written by a Roman Catholic monk.… — Swami Vivekananda
- Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and… — William Shakespeare
- The moral problem of abortion is of a pre religious nature because the genetic code is written in a person at the… — Pope Francis
- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's… — Lance Armstrong
- Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty. — Paul Auster
- Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. — Lord Acton
- I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350… — Antonio Banderas